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Wednesday, June 30, 1993 The Gamecock A s linii l ??n .? m-. ^7 Professor leaves USC to take on Wofford By RADHIKA TALWANI ing class to attend. Instead, she teaching, your desire for success / Staff Writer found herself enjoying the class doesn't have much to do with it," He drank tea with the Rmnernr of thoroughly. "It was like magic. Not Dunlap said. "So many people don't JapanWsired witt tlTQueen a soul in .he classroom was no. enjoy what they spend time doing. = Mother of England, dined with wrapped in attention." To find something you really enjoy ^gA President Clinton, roomed with Kris Outside of the classroom, Dunlap and to get to do it for a living, is lEK Kristofferson at Oxford, danced is involved with many film and tele- really fortunate." . with the Columbia City Ballet and vision screenplays, and he has just Yeatts said Dunlap's excitement has traveled everywhere except completed his first novel. for the subject matter is evident in South America. "I wodc Wltb highly edited script- the classroom. "He is our positive WKKk He has also taught 41 different ed programs, mostly public televi- reinforcement and he is totally com- ^9 courses in nine different depart- ^on, drama, documentaries, per- mitted to making you feel good ments, and has written and pro- inning arts and educational televi- about what you have done," Yeatts, JHl duced more than 250 television pro- S10n- *.am als0 involve" far~ who is enrolled in his fiction work- ^31 nB grams. out radio stuff. Dunlap said. shop class, said. "I haven't met a ^ And in the fall of 1993, Benjamin Dunlap began teaching film in professor more dedicated to his stu"Bernie" Dunlap will leave the 1^71 when asked by the university dents than this man. He is a gentle luMk JgAjnF*University of South Carolina to take 10 ^fin a studies program in man wbo js very interesting;' I the position of Chapman Professor an effort to attract students to the The advantage of teaching for RB^trfMiir i*nrrrr IP* ' * of Humanities at Wofford College. university. ave dmded my tone Ounlap is this direct contact with "Don't think of my leaving USC students. "Sharing the excite- Eric Glenn/The Gamecock and going to Wofford is like (fivorc- eve t ment f Mng is one 0f the most Professor Benjamin Dunlap teaches one of his last courses,a ficmg one wife and martying anoUter," ***,? ? 0ne saUsfying relationships ever. The workshop, before ending his twenty-five years at USC. Dunlap said. "It's like completing semester. key is to know you are learning as one task and taking on another." Dunlap has recci e well as teaching." m C\ toC?Un'auhas taken on a number of work in film including an . ^ltilsp said the disadvantage to di International companies tasks m his 25 years with the um- ?- hls work in rum, i . ?. the profession, beside poverty, is w * /r'.v , , ... . f versity. He is a professor of English Emmy nominationtor ms nrst procedures for entire and pro- help 111 making 1ODS easier and an adjunct professor of anlhro- n??onal series. The Cmematic molion ? young professor endures, VJf V ? ' pology. He has also taught courses !* ? 'yf? jnate(j for an " A mediocre lawyer in a middle By DESAREE HOLLINS facturers, international manufactur-fflm. theatre, education, journal- a.on se,tea ever nom.na.ed ^ |aw fmI] ^ mQre dlgnity ^ ers from Ma|avsia Japan F[mce guaeeT'' * " "niat' was the most exciting "*sttrWa,an most professors will The Columbia Museum of Art Italy; England, Taiwan, China, and He was a Fulbright professor in award because it was the first," ev?f experience. That shouldn t be has coUecled a unique showing of New Zealand contribute to the Thailand and Japan, while still a Dunlap said. "I am most grateful for *> -d . imnortam objec,s 10 make our everyday tasks exhib" bems in1.ai osl every faculty member, and has lectured Ute gold plaque 1 received at the IT"" more exciting. The museum as^ct of an individual s hfe widely in France, Japan and India. Chicago Film Festival" thing for a teacher is to make sure exhibits a collection of objects the Such designed objects on display "The most intriguing place I've Dunlap said his advicl to anyone y?u have a passionate love of learn- pubiic would not generally consider serve us in almost every asPect. ever been was IndL biause of all wanting to get into to film is to ing that you don't loose no matter ^ a form of ^ France's Air Wick deodorizers and the Places I have ever been it's the write and 8et illvoIvetl with the how battered you feel at the hands The Columbia Museum of Art Malaysia's fancy mousetrap helps place where social problems are the business of film making or televi- of the academic Gestapo, he has pr0gramme(i "Out Of The us in foe household; Japan's Pierrot worst and where the vitality of peo- uon programming. "You have to advised. "I think that President ordinary: The Eighth International scissors and England's condom Pie is most intense," Dunlap said. *ave a practicaltunderstanding of Palms and Provost Moeser are on Arang0 Design Exhibition," an case help our personal and office "On the other hand, I don't know if/ foe medium itself, if you are hoping the right track in terms of what they exhibition consisting of more than needs. Other items are useful for I would live there the rest of my t0 write effectively for it, Dunlap want to do with the university and I 200 ordinary items that cost under gardens, bath and cosmetics, medilife. It is like life with a beautiful, said. "Film and television desper- hope they are given the means to do $20 creatively designed from manu- cine, toys and games, the kitchen, tempestuous woman; it is wonder- ately need good scripts. it facturers around the world. and traveling, fol, yet demanding." Dunlap said the key to his sue- The presence of Dunlap at the Lin Mayson, deputy director of "0ut of The Ordinary" is on disDunlap uses what he has learned ccss 1S be has never really felt sue- university will be missed by many, editorial, comments on the low- play now through Sept. 26 in the in other countries in the classroom, cessful. But when you do t e i think it is terribly sad that the priced everyday uses. "The exhibit cast and lower east galleries of the Myra Yeatts, a graduate student in foings you like to do, success isn t university is losing one of the best lets tbe people know they don't museum. The Columbia Museum of English, said when she enrolled in the point. You are driven by the professors they've ever had," Yeatts j^ve to spend an arm and a leg buy- Art is located in downtown his Non-Westem Literature course, excitement and enjoyment. said. "He is an inspirational motiva- designed products." 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